A bit of background: in 1973, when then-President “Tricky Dick” Nixon famously said “I am not a crook,” he wasn’t referring to Watergate but to the revelation his tax returns had proved what he had been denying for years, that he had illegally taken $500,000 in deductions to avoid paying taxes. Nixon’s tax cheating was came to light when a low-level IRS employee sent his returns to the Providence Journal newspaper in Rhode Island.

Since Nixon’s tax-cheating scandal, every presidential and vice presidential candidate (except for Crooked Donald) has released their returns, though they aren’t legally obligated to do so. Then again, Crooked Donald knows of the laws that provide fines and jail time for leaking returns, as well as current IRS policy that severely limits access to tax returns of both presidents and presidential candidates to a select few in the agency.

Fogg’s argument got a lot of attention—but this week New York Times columnist suggested a possible IRS leak is unlikely, because very few employees have access to Crooked Donald’s returns and that Crooked Donald’s Justice Department would likely prosecute, that whistleblower law be damned.